On the way to her wedding,Maria thinks about all the other men she has dated.Her clearest memory is of Lawrence,her first boyfriend.Maria's recall illustrates the ____ effect.
A) recency
B) primacy
C) semantic
D) encoding

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The primacy effect refers to the tendency to remember information that was presented first in a list or sequence. In this case, Lawrence was Maria's first boyfriend, so her clearest memory of him illustrates the primacy effect.

On the Way to Her Wedding,Maria Thinks About All the Other